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Our airplane had incendiary bombs. Our mission was to light up Tokyo.

— Richard E. Cole Interview with HistoryNet (2019)

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To the gentlemen we lost on the mission and to those who have passed away since, thank you very much and may they rest in peace.

When I think about it, the mission was not a highly dangerous affair. You could do something about it if there was a problem. But, looking back, I’d say we were pretty lucky.

Dick Cole: The Last Doolittle Raider (2017)

The raid was designed to do two things. One was to let the Japanese people know their leaders were not being truthful by saying Japan couldn’t be bombed by air. The other was to give the Allies, and particularly the United States, a morale shot in the arm.

Interview with HistoryNet (2019)

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